If Anderson Silva plans to sit out until late 2013 as reported, Michael Bisping doesn’t want the division to be on hold.

So on Wednesday, Bisping took to Twitter to call for the implementation of an interim UFC middleweight title.

Bisping (23-4 MMA, 13-4 UFC), a longtime contender in the division, fights former title challenger Vitor Belfort (21-10 MMA, 10-6 UFC) in January in UFC on FX 7’s main event.

“If Anderson wants to take time off to be a movie star make me and vitor for the interim title????” Bisping wrote in a tweet directed at UFC President Dana White.

As of Tuesday morning, White had given no response.

UFC on FX 7 takes place Jan. 19 in Brazil. Although no host city or venue has been confirmed, the FX-televised event likely will take place in Sao Paulo. Bisping and Belfort meet in the five-round headliner.

As MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) reported on Monday, Silva recently told Brazilian outlet Tatame that he plans to sit out until “the end of next year.” That put a damper on recent news that Silva (33-4 MMA, 16-0 UFC) will be in Montreal for this weekend’s UFC 154 event, where he was expected to call out UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre if he gets by interim titleholder Carlos Condit in the pay-per-view headliner. UFC President Dana White even recently went as far as giving some possible locations for a Silva vs. St-Pierre stadium-show superfight, which initially was expected to take place in the first half of 2013.

MMAjunkie.com could not reach Silva’s representatives for confirmation of his plans for an extended layoff. Silva, of course, recently took a late-notice main-event booking at UFC 153, where he defeated Stephan Bonnar in a non-title light-heavyweight fight this past month. The 37-year-old Silva is currently on an unmatched 16-0 run in the UFC, and the rest of the division is lining for a shot at his belt.